Notes
- ↑ Marcus Terentius Varro, Fragm. p. 216, ed Bip.
- ↑ Scholiast, ad Plat. Phaedr. p. 343
- ↑ Lactant. De Fals. Relig 1.6
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Apollodorus of Erythrae was a writer of ancient Greece, who spoke of the Erythraean Sibyl as his fellow-citizen. [1] [2] [3]
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